Catalogue description WILLIAM JOHNSON to LORD WILLOUGHBY at Dordreycht.

--At your Honour's going into Zealand, I returning to the Hague, and not finding you there, spoke to Mr. Gilpin "of a Scottish captain, one named Adam Montgomery, who had letters of commendation from the King of Scots for the better preferment of his suits, as well to County Mawris as also to the Prince of Parma." Mr. Gilpin and I thought he might be of service to your Honour, wherefore we wrote to you, and I kept the captain at my charges for eight weeks; but receiving no answer, "I willed him to take County Mawris's passport and to make his repair to the Prince of Parma," bidding him let me know how things stood. He is now come to me here, and as he "hath a piece of work under hand which I willed him in pain of life not to discover until your Honour were made first privy unto it, for he would have opened it unto Grave Mawris," I pray to know whether I shall stay your coming or bring him to Dort. You may hear of me in the Gowlden Claverblatt, by the Hardibale.

Endorsed: "Johnson of Roterdam."